But I can’t ignore that there are things that inspire me, and I love celebrating those.
ALAN PALOMOLet alone 15 minutes – to decide what you think about it.
More Alan Palomo Quotes
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It’s cool but also a little creepy.
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But it’s not anything like what we envisioned it to be. It’s almost like there’s too much choice.
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“It’s not where you got it from, it’s where you take it.” To me, that’s just an integral part of why I even bother making music.
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There’s this really amazing quote from Jim Jarmusch about celebrating your theft that I think has become more and more prominent in music.
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I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
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But all you can do is ignore the annoying hum of the machine and focus on making art that makes you excited to be alive.
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I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
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Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.
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I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it;
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And sometimes you have to let it go limp and detach yourself from any associations.
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So I wanted to create soundscapes that are evocative of places that only exist in your head – that’s where the fun, psychedelic stuff happens anyway.
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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.
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I have this eerie feeling that by the time I’m 33, reality will not exist in the same plane as it did before.
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I think it’s more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle.
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And we use it to read album reviews and watch kitten videos… not to put those two things in the same light!
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